Running distributed like that always has a cost, both in inefficiency of the compute and in person-time. If you still can run on one machine, it's almost alway

Running distributed like that always has a cost, both in inefficiency of the compute and in person-time. If you still can run on one machine, it's almost always a win. 32Gb is a perfectly reasonable amount of memory to expect. 64Gb isn't outlandish at all for a workstation.